How to draw a String to the window with OpenGL?

Question

I want to draw text to the screen, how can I do this? Is there any method in OpenGL that prints text to screen?

Answer 1

There is no method in OpenGL to draw text to screen. Rather you can use the library or create your own calls to draw text to the screen. There are two common calls within GLUT that could help you 

glutBitmapString() and glutStrokeString()

Or you can even create a method or function that draws character text to screen using standard OpenGL function, or use Stencil buffer using calls to gIDrawPixels() to get the characters. For more read here.

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